Measuring energy consumption is cool and dandy, but this is a secondary step, the primary stet is measuring the efficiency of work capacity of a given system. A better architected system will deliver a better work efficiency from the same hardware and will save energy by default.
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Benchmark group tackles server energy efficiency
by Stephen Shankland
The Transaction Processing Performance Council has released a new benchmark called TPC-Energy for measuring how much work computers get done for a given amount of energy.
The move reflects the growing concern with power efficiency given environmental issues such as carbon footprint and financial issues involving the cost of electricity for running computers and cooling data centers.
The group already has developed a variety of server benchmarks: TPC-C and the newer TPC-E for database performance and TPC-H for data warehouse performance. TPC-Energy in effect does a little extra math on those tests to yield a "watts per performance" score, the group said in an announcement this week. [More]
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